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Stupid Apps and Changing the World
An article came out today in Businessweek about arrogance and Silicon Valley. I thought it was good, but there was one more point I wanted to make. People often accuse people in Silicon Valley...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,552 posts.
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Mattermark Has Raised $2M in Our Second Seed Round
After taking $3.4M in total funding over the past 2 years, it’s time to take a break from fundraising
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Ron Conway Explained
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Finding Ideas For Your Next Project
When starting a new business project, how do you decide what to produce? The common thing you hear is that an idea is necessary to start. I know a lot of wannabe entrepreneurs who are constantly trying to come up with their next big idea. They think great ideas are not only hard to come […]
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SaaS Pricing (2013)
SaaS pricing is a mystery to many developers. Here is how to do it better.
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Software markets and businesses are 10x bigger due to the internet
Over the last few years the number of people and businesses online has ballooned.
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A Brief Guide to Startup Pivots
Most of the times, startup don't work. At some point it may make sense to either (1) give up on your original product and to sell the company, (2) shut down what you are doing and return money to investors, or (3) to pivot. You can read more on making the decision to give up in a future article. This post focuses on…
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Don't build useless features
One of the most important core product management skills is the ability to triage unsuccessful products and avoid spending unnecessary effort on products that are destined to be losers.
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Unequal Cofounders
One of the big myths in Silicon Valley is that co-founders should be equal. However, if you look at the most successful tech startups of the last 50 years, almost all of them had a dominant co-founder for most of the life of the company. This includes[1]:
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An open letter to Mike Arrington: Please stop investing in startups
Hi Mike, I’m one of your customers. We don’t really know each other. We’ve chatted at a few events, you’ve covered some of my antics, but I’m mostly just a guy who reads TechCrunch a lot. I find it’s a pretty good place to see what’s important in the industry. And you and your team do some damn fine reporting on…
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How your startup is getting lapped by companies who know how to hire
There will always be an excess of bad ideas and dumb money in the market--so we'll always be complaining about a lack of talent, no matter how many developers there are. Still, I contend that most companies have no idea how to hire, and in the last week, my theory got proved to me several times ov
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10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire
Managing Director in Lazard's Media, Entertainment & Sports Group. Former CEO of Future Plc, founder of Cheddar News, and President & COO of BuzzFeed.
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The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales
And 11 signs you've got it backwards
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Why our startup failed
Écrits, photos et conférences de Thomas Parisot, développeur web indépendant.
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Now is a good time to start a service business
Now is a good time to start a service business. Maybe you should try it! A service business is one where your company sells its work output directly instead of selling a product. Dentists, plumbers, design agencies, pool cleaner, consultants: these are all service businesses. The opposite of a service business is a…